Instamom

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See also: instamom and insta-mom

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Blend of Instagram +‎ mom.

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Instamom (plural Instamoms)

  1. (informal) A mother who runs an Instagram account focused on her child/children or motherhood in general.
    • 2015 November 14, Hayley Krischer, “Meet the Instamom, a Stage Mother for Social Media”, in The New York Times:
    • 2019, Leslie Anne Bruce, You Are a F*cking Awesome Mom: So Embrace the Chaos, Get Over the Guilt, and Be True to You[1], unnumbered page:
      My advice for new mamas is to take all those beautiful Instamom photos with a grain of salt, because a carefully cropped square leaves the rest of a person's reality out of the frame.
    • 2021, Arzu Kalafat Çat, “Virtual Identities And Self-Presentation In Social Media Instagram Mothers”, in Enes Emre Başar, Pınar Bacaksız, editors, New Paradigms within the Communication Sciences[2], page 181:
      The sampling consisted of five Instamoms with more than 100,000 followers recruited using purposive sampling.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Instamom.

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